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The purpose of this paragraph is to enable the Government
to make the nationality provisions necessary as a
consequence of the UK ceasing to have sovereignty or
jurisdiction over Hong Kong in 1997, and to fulfil the
commitments made in the UK memorandum which was presented to the Chinese Government when the agreement was signed.
It enables a subsequent Order or Orders in Council to be
made to ensure that British Dependent Territories
citizenship cannot be acquired or retained on or after 1
July 1997 by virtue of a connection with Hong Kong and to
create a new form of nationality which may be acquired
before that date by persons who are BDTCs by virtue of
such a connection.
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I should like to say a word first about the proposed procedure. There
There was some criticism of the Government in
another place for adopting the Order in Council procedure
for dealing with nationality in this Bill.
It was
suggested that the nationality provisions should either be
dealt with in full in the Bill, or else omitted entirely from the Bill, and dealt with in a separate Act
Act.]
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